While firefighters continue to fight Raging forest fires In five California counties, celebrities and Golden State residents are sharply criticizing public officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for their lack of preparation.
Local law enforcement has at least mentioned that 10 individuals were killedThe fire has destroyed more than 10,000 homes and buildings since Tuesday.
“If this were a business, everyone in their position would be fired,” Aurora Culpo, host of “Barely Filtered,” told Fox News Digital. “The fact that no one wants to take responsibility and admit to egregious negligence only proves our lack of real leadership in our state.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton Jillian Michaels is among other celebrities who provide scathing comments to government officials.
Aurora Culpo, mother of two and host of the “Barely Filtered” podcast, criticizes California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for a lack of preparation ahead of the catastrophic wildfires. (Aurora Culpo)
Culpo, originally from Rhode Island, is a Manhattan Beach resident who fled the area with her children on Thursday.
“This disaster did not come out of left field,” Culpo said. He added: “We were well aware of the possibility of a fire, and we had the willingness of a third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in the world. Those in power must be forced to take responsibility and resign.”
She added that the expectations of government officials should be “extremely high,” and political accountability must be strictly enforced.
“Their incompetence is costing lives, communities and billions of dollars,” Culpo said of both Governor Newsom and Bass.
“The captain is landing the ship,” she said. “Resignation.”
Fire crews battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills area of Los Angeles, Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)
“I don’t care if Newsom is a Republican or a Democrat, not at all, in this case,” she said. “In a way, he evades blame because he describes it as a local issue.”
Culpo said: “What I posted on my Instagram account is that everyone who voted for Newsom to take office for a second term has blood on their hands, and I stand by what I said.” “This is a blue state. If we can't blame the Democratic Party, who can we blame? If we can't hold anyone accountable, how do we think we're supposed to make changes?”
The mother of two added that she agrees with the president-elect Donald Trump A statement posted on Truth Social attributes the spread of the wildfires to “gross incompetence” by Bass and Newsom.
“I agree with him 100 percent,” she said.
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Aurora Culpo, the sister of former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, fled her home in Manhattan Beach with her two children amid wildfires raging in California. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Culpo said she is “all for environmentalism, conservation, gay rights and diversity,” but safety, above all, must remain a priority in the hierarchy of needs.
“We're not sophisticated enough in society yet to worry about things like how diverse our firefighters are,” Culpo said.
“We fund sex changes for prison inmates, but we cannot fill the tanks, because we want to save the lives of prisoners Melting fish“, she said.
Since 2017, California has allegedly paid $4 million in taxpayer money to perform surgeries on transgender inmates, including breast augmentation and facial feminization, according to Family Counselor in California.
California firefighters are working tirelessly to contain and stop wildfires that have displaced residents in several counties. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the highest water supply system in California, is largely protected by the depletion of its smelt and Chinook salmon populations.
“No matter what you think about prisoners' sexual changes or smoked fish, the point is that our priorities are completely out of control,” Culpo said.
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Despite the best efforts of firefighters to put out the flames, some of the fires are still out of control, and Culpo takes her children to San Francisco, where her sister, model and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, and her new husband, American football player Christian McCaffrey, are present. . Stay.
“I'm worried about my kids because of the air quality,” Culpo said. “These are very dangerous pollutants in the air that can cause long-term problems.”
